Thursday, January 7, 2010

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law


By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Posted on January 7, 2010, Printed on January 7, 2010
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/2151/

Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood
(California, 2009)

This very rich little book seems to me a very good place to begin the new decade. It is smart, informed, thoughtful, urgent—and properly unsettling. It is also very difficult to summarize in short order. [Continue reading here]

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